S65. Assessing the Developmental Taxonomy of Antisocial Behavior: Structural Neural Correlates of Life-Course Persistent vs. Adolescence-Limited Subtypes in a Longitudinal Birth Cohort

2019 ◽  
Vol 85 (10) ◽  
pp. S322
Author(s):  
Christina Carlisi ◽  
Annchen Knodt ◽  
Ahmad Hariri ◽  
Essi Viding
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Neural Correlates ◽  
Developmental Taxonomy ◽  
Life Course Persistent

The Developmental Taxonomy

2018 ◽  
pp. 148-158
Author(s):  
Tara Renae McGee ◽  
Terrie E. Moffitt
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Early Onset ◽  
Adult Onset ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Developmental Taxonomy ◽  
Offending Behavior ◽  
Life Course Persistent ◽  
The Life Course

This chapter considers whether the peak in the age–crime curve is a function of active offenders committing more crime during adolescence or a function of more individuals actively offending in the peak years. It discusses the two main and most empirically tested typological groupings: the life-course persistent group and the adolescence limited group. The chapter then reviews the evidence on a theoretically interesting grouping: those who abstain from antisocial and offending behavior. It focuses on the debate regarding whether those who were originally thought to recover from early-onset antisocial behavior have childhood-limited antisocial behavior or exhibit low-level chronic antisocial behavior across the life course. Finally, the chapter discusses how the theory it introduces accounts for adult-onset offending and considers whether there are gender differences that need to be accounted for by the theory.

Can they recover? An assessment of adult adjustment problems among males in the abstainer, recovery, life-course persistent, and adolescence-limited pathways followed up to age 56 in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development

2015 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 537-549 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wesley G. Jennings ◽  
Michael Rocque ◽  
Bryanna Hahn Fox ◽  
Alex R. Piquero ◽  
David P. Farrington
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Early Adulthood ◽  
Middle Adulthood ◽  
Adjustment Problems ◽  
Comprehensive Investigation ◽  
Developmental Taxonomy ◽  
Life Course Persistent ◽  
Adult Adjustment

AbstractMuch research has examined Moffitt's developmental taxonomy, focusing almost exclusively on the distinction between life-course persistent and adolescence-limited offenders. Of interest, a handful of studies have identified a group of individuals whose early childhood years were marked by extensive antisocial behavior but who seemed to recover and desist (at least from severe offending) in adolescence and early adulthood. We use data from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development to examine the adult adjustment outcomes of different groups of offenders, including a recoveries group, in late middle adulthood, offering the most comprehensive investigation of this particular group to date. Findings indicate that abstainers comprise the largest group of males followed by adolescence-limited offenders, recoveries, and life-course persistent offenders. Furthermore, the results reveal that a host of adult adjustment problems measured at ages 32 and 48 in a number of life-course domains are differentially distributed across these four offender groups. In addition, the recoveries and life-course persistent offenders often show the greatest number of adult adjustment problems relative to the adolescence-limited offenders and abstainers.

Association of subcortical grey-matter volumes with life-course-persistent antisocial behavior in a population-representative longitudinal birth cohort

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Carlisi
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Birth Cohort ◽  
Statistical Power ◽  
Grey Matter ◽  
Brain Structures ◽  
Subcortical Structures ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Life Course Persistent ◽  
The Life Course

Objective:Neuropsychological evidence supports the Developmental Taxonomy Theory of Antisocial Behavior, suggesting that abnormal brain development distinguishes life-course-persistent antisocial behavior from adolescence-limited antisocial behavior. Recent neuroimaging work confirmed that prospectively-measured life-course-persistent antisocial behavior is associated with differences in cortical brain structure. Whether this extends to subcortical brain structures remains uninvestigated. Methods:This study compared subcortical grey-matter volumes between individuals characterized by life-course-persistent, adolescence-limited or low-level antisocial behavior. Participants were members of the Dunedin Study, a population-based birth cohort of 1037 individuals born in New Zealand between 1972-1973 and followed to age 45. 672 Study members previously defined as exhibiting life-course-persistent, adolescence-limited, or low-level antisocial behavior based on repeated assessments from ages 7-26 were included. Grey-matter volumes of 10 subcortical structures were compared across groups. Results:The life-course-persistent group (N=80;59% male) had lower volume of amygdala, brain stem, cerebellum, hippocampus, pallidum, thalamus, and ventral diencephalon compared to the low-antisocial group (N=441;47% male). Differences between the life-course-persistent and the adolescence-limited group (N=151;54% male) were comparable in effect-size to differences between the life-course persistent and low-antisocial group, but were not statistically significant due to less statistical power. Grey-matter volumes in the adolescence-limited group were near the norm in this population-representative cohort and similar to volumes in the low-antisocial group. Conclusions:Although this study cannot establish causal links between brain volume and antisocial behavior, it constitutes new biological evidence that all people with antisocial behavior are not the same, supporting a need for greater developmental and diagnostic precision in clinical, forensic, and policy-based interventions.

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